John Sherman

The Governor of Ohio has less power than almost any other governor of the United States.

The President of the United States is armed with more power during his four years than any prince or potentate of Europe; he exercises a power greater than any man in any country of the world, whether a monarchy or empire.

What is there in the office that prevents his full and free and complete performance of all the duties imposed upon him as Governor of Ohio?

Why should not a man be nominated by the Republicans for a third term as Governor of Ohio?

Because he did so well in both his previous terms that the Republican party of Ohio was willing to sanction him as its candidate for a third term--and intend to elect him.

And, more important than all, you will pave the way for a congress in which all these states will be represented in a greater than an Amphictyonic council, with broader jurisdiction and scope than the rulers of ancient Greece conceived of.

If your conference deals wisely with your opportunity you will light a torch that will illuminate the world.

You do not unite to conquer, but to help each other in developing your resources and in exchanging your productions.

I do not recall, in the annals of man, a meeting of the selected representatives of any nations with nobler aims or with greater opportunity for good than this conference of American states.

But, more important still, your conference contemplates only peaceful aids for mutual benefit; theirs provided for war and a desperate struggle with superior forces.

I look upon this conference as having the same relation to the future of America as the conference of the thirteen British colonies, in 1774, had to the declaration of American independence.

Monroe proclaimed to the world the determination of the United States not to suffer any European power to interfere with the internal concerns of independent American states.

Henry Clay, as early as 1818, when proposing to acknowledge the independence of the South American states, eloquently depicted the mutual advantage of closer commercial relations with those states.

If my name was forged to it I will consider it my duty to prosecute all men who took that liberty.

No delicacy or pity ought to shield them from the consequences of a crime infinitely greater than the signing of such a paper would have been.

But now, since it is shown to be a forgery, a crime of the greatest character, it seems to me you ought at once to exercise your well-known energy and independence in exposing and denouncing, with equal severity, the man or men who forged…

While you believed in the genuineness of Campbell's signature you were entirely right in exposing him and the signers of the paper, for if it was genuine it was a corrupt and illegal transaction.

In my view the choice is as plain as the sunlight of heaven in favor of the Republican party.

The Republican party, having saved the Union should be the governing party, and it should be heartily supported by all true patriots.

The popularity of Americans in Europe was mentioned, and it was said of them that while abroad they were not partisans, but patriots; they believed that any party at home was better than all parties in foreign lands.

The institutions of Great Britain have become liberalized until it is a monarchy only in name, the queen exercising far less power than the President of the United States.

Everywhere in these old countries the spirit of nationalism is growing stronger and stronger.

This is the feeling of every American, and it is sometimes too strongly and noisily expressed to be acceptable abroad.

The joys of home and the pleasures of foreign lands were dilated upon, and the Senator said: 'No American can travel anywhere without having a stronger love and affection for his native land.

All the governments of Europe are following in the same path, so that we may fairly hope that in a brief time Europe will become republican in substance if not in form.